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episodes from the archives. We'll be back with new episodes in the new year. But until

then, we hope you enjoy this episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

On this episode of Five Minutes in Church History, let's travel a little closer in time and

look at the life of Elizabeth Elliott. She was born in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, and

she died in 2015 at Magnolia, Mississippi. She was the daughter of missionaries. She was

a missionary wife to a missionary husband, and she herself was a missionary. She was an

author and a speaker. And that is the life of Elizabeth Elliott. Well, as a young lady,

Elizabeth Howard went off to Wheaton College and there she studied the classics.

She studied classics because she believed it would best help her for her life's calling

to be a missionary and translator of the New Testament. And while at Wheaton, she met

Jim Elliott. Jim Elliott thought God wanted him to be a bachelor, but five years later

he changed his mind. Initially, they both went to Ecuador single. She went as Elizabeth

Howard and he went as Jim Elliott, but shortly after they arrived in 1953 in Quito, Ecuador,

they were married. Not too far from the site where they were working there in Ecuador,

Nate St. noticed a settlement on one of his flights. And after a few months of air-dropping

packages and sending messages, they decided they would go and visit the village in person.

Jim Elliott and Pete Fleming, Ed McCulley, Roger Euderian, and the pilot, Nate St. all

went to visit along the river there in the Amazon jungle. Well, back at the missionary

station, no word was received and people begin to wonder about them. And so they started

to search. And after a long series of time, and by this point, become national news and

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